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Tracy Shawn

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Born

The United States

Website

http://www.tracyshawn.com

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Fiction, Contemporary, Domestic Fiction

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Anne Tyler

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October 2012

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Tracy Shawn is based on the coast of California. Her novels Floating Underwater (2021) and The Grace of Crows (2024 as a second edition) have won a variety of indie book awards. Her short stories and poems have appeared in several literary publications, including two featured works in Spillwords Press. She’s written numerous articles for print and online publications and is currently working on her third novel.

Tracy enjoys visiting local book clubs and is also available as a virtual guest author (her novels provide book club questions to further deepen individual reader’s experience and encourage in-depth group discussions).

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Average rating: 3.65 · 115 ratings · 53 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Grace of Crows, Second Edition 3.79 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Floating Underwater 3.53 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Writing Through Challenging Times

Please note that this post was first published in Women Writers, Women’s Books on July 1, 2025 by Tracy Shawn It takes energy, determination, and focus to get those words down. And it can be even more challenging to find the motivation to write when being bombarded by bad news and anxious thoughts. And […]

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“You are not alone...please know that hope can fly in on the most unexpected of wings.”
― Tracy Shawn, The Grace of Crows

tags: anxiety, compassion-wisdom, psychology-of-self

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Tracy’s Quotes

“Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.”
― Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

tags: anxiety, philosophy-of-life, psychology

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“You are not alone...please know that hope can fly in on the most unexpected of wings.”
― Tracy Shawn, The Grace of Crows

tags: anxiety, compassion-wisdom, psychology-of-self

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“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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